Posts Tagged ‘SMS’

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Facebook to Set Final IPO Price Later Today (CNN Money)
Facebook’s long road to an initial public offering is coming to an end. Late Thursday, it will fill in one last piece of the puzzle: Its final IPO price. Mashable On Wednesday, Facebook announced that an extra 84 million shares will be added to its stock pool for sale. The extra shares will come entirely from insiders and early investors, according to the AP. Reuters But investors who want Facebook shares when the No. 1 online social network goes public later this week may have lost the opportunity. TD Ameritrade and Fidelity’s brokerage arm both stopped accepting orders of Facebook shares as of Tuesday evening, according to representatives for each of the companies. CNET Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin, who is simultaneously becoming one of the richer and more reviled people around, wants to set the record straight. Saverin, who is now a citizen of Singapore after renouncing his U.S. citizenship, said his decision has nothing to do with taxes. Forbes All eyes are on Facebook this week in the lead-up to the social network’s initial public offering, but Google did all it could to steal back a little bit of glory on Wednesday. One of the biggest pieces of news was the search company’s addition of “Knowledge Graph” to its core product, a way to find answers without ever clicking a link and leaving the search results page. Read more

African, Middle Eastern and South Asian Users Can Now Update their Google+ Status through SMS

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The Google India Blog announced that users can now easily post status updates to Google+ via SMS.  For some foreign countries where mobile internet isn’t always a given in all areas, this tool allows people to stay up to date without having to head over to an Internet cafe or finding a wi-fi signal.  The feature is pretty simple, but adds to Google+’s buffet of services.

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As Users Choose Social Media over SMS Texts, Mobile Operators Lose Billions

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I remember when I first visited Japan in 1997.  Our group of North Americans were shocked at how even teenage girls had their own cell phones, complete with dangling bells and ornaments.  What surprised us more was their use of “SMS” messaging to send chat messages to one another.  After I’d returned from the trip, I did some research and found that the phenomenon was also spreading all over Europe — Brits in particular sent millions of text messages per year.

It would be a few more years before we had it over on our continent, but once it hit, it hit big.  That’s what it’s a bit of a changing of the guard to see that social media messaging (Facebook, Twitter, etc) is costing mobile operators billions of dollars in SMS revenue.

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ClassParrot: Secure Private School-related Text Messaging Between Teachers and Students

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Text messages has, as many millions of frequent user know, earned is place as a high value tool despite its relatively low-tech nature in a world increasingly filled with smartphones and tablets. It works on nearly every phone regardless of how smart, or not, it is. It is so ubiquitess and useful that one company launched a service that speifically targets a perceived need in the K-12 school space.
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AT&T Advice and Instructions for Dealing with Text Message Spam

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A couple of spam text messages hit my iPhone recently. So, I tweeted a question to AT&T Wireless’s Customer Care Twitter account to learn what advice they might offer. You can see the response in the screenshot above. AT&T’s advice to use the word STOP to block messages is, it turns out, specifically to deal with messages from Short Code numbers. However, AT&T provides ways to deal with other kind of text message spam on this web support page.
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U.S. Text Message Spam Infographic: 84% of Teenagers Affected. 68% of General Population

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One of the biggest irratants in life to me (what a friend of mine would term a “first-world problem”: Things that bother you assuming the basics in life are already met) is text message spam (SMS spam). Tatango’s SMS Marketing Blog has a fascinating infographic summarizing the demographics of the problem.
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Receive Text Messages On Your Desktop PC With DeskSMS

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If you receive text messages while sitting in front of a personal computer, you might find it more convenient to reply to those messages using your PC rather than typing a reply on your phone. DeskSMS is an Android app currently in beta that redirects text messages sent to your phone, to your Gmail or Gtalk accounts, where you can then type a reply on your PC.
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Mobile Instant Messaging will cross 1.3 Billion Users by 2016

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Juniper Research, in a recent report has projected that the number of mobile instant messaging (IM) users will exceed 1.3 billion by 2016, marking a 300% increase from 2010. The growth is expected to be driven by the continued growth of services like AOL’s AIM, Blackberry Messenger, Microsoft’s Windows Live, Skype and Yahoo! Messenger and Apple’s iMessage.

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Textfree for Android Gaining Momentum

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Pinger, the makers of the texting free and talking free apps, has launched its Textfree 1.2  for Android with Facebook Chat integration. Textfree by Pinger is the texting/instant messaging app for iOS and Android devices that provides the users their personal texting number with unlimited texting and IM for free. All you need is a data connection for free chat with other Textfree users on their mobile devices or on the web.

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